Books Quote by Walter Dick

“Writing structure is logical. Writing method at its best is instinctive. That way you get the benefits of both styles - improvisation within calculation.”

— Stewart Stafford

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

— Henry David Thoreau

This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims…

— Anonymous

I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.

— Lalo Schifrin

“If you want to become a better writer, you have to write. But you also have to read. One of the things I love…

— Kami Garcia

The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough…

— Paul A. Baran

“Writing is a craft and needs constant practice.”

— Patricia Highsmith

“What can we do, then, to recognize that yes, grading and its traditions are still present, but so is the writer? Feedback, not grades,…

— Patty McGee

Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken.…

— Henry David Thoreau

“What is competent writing? Competent writing is writing that efficiently describes ideas and concepts to an audience, using a grammar that the audience can…

— John Scalzi

To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the first summons;…

— Samuel Johnson

“If you want to write faster, the first step is to know what you're writing before you write it.”

— Rachel Aaron